For those of you who have integrated Tracker with your Google Apps domain, you are already attaching your Google docs to stories, and have been able to invite members of your domain to Tracker easily. Read more...
Pivotal Tracker is a critical tool for thousands of teams, and providing a stable, reliable service is vitally important for us. Uptime is typically in the proverbial “three nines” (99.95% for the first half of the year), but in the last few weeks we’ve experienced a number of unexpected outages. The worst of which was yesterday, lasting almost two hours. This was disruptive to many of you, and we’d like to apologize. Read more...
We’ve released the first of a couple of updates to the dashboard, aiming for a cleaner, clearer view of your projects. In this update, as well as a fresh new look, subscribing to RSS feeds has moved and there’s the addition of each project’s volatility. Read more...
Say farewell to time spent writing a long comment describing where something is wrong. Gone are the days of seeing a comment and wondering, “What?! I don’t see it.” Here(!) are the days of taking a screenshot, dropping a pin on it and appending a note to succinctly and specifically say what you want to say. Read more...
Though your stories look gorgeous in Tracker, exporting to CSV is a handy way to make a backup, share a different view of particular stories, do bulk updates, make a report, or create a project template. To make getting stories into and out of Tracker easier for you, we’ve improved several aspects of CSV import and export. Read more...
We’re excited about the latest round of features in the iOS Tracker App! We think they’ll make you faster at giving feedback and we’ve removed some of the noise when navigating a story. Read more...
It’s finally here: you can now make copies of your stories with one click story cloning! Break larger stories down more easily, create stories similar to existing ones, or use icebox stories with elaborate tasks as templates for new projects. Read more...
As promised here, we’ve replaced the old Commit Mode feature with a new way to manually plan your current iteration. It’s available now in both the original and beta versions of Tracker. Read more...
This is really exciting for us. Our first foray into localizing Pivotal Tracker. Our hope is to roll out more languages very soon for our iOS app. Read more...
I was chatting with the folks over at Code Climate the other day about their integration with Tracker. We blushed when finding out Tracker was one of their first integrations and thought we should take a minute to share a little more info about it! Read more...
Thursday, May 15th, at approximately 3:30pm Mountain Time, our customers experienced 45 minutes of unexpected downtime. The root cause of the problem was a misconfigured load balancer. A planned maintenance event increased the traffic load for a short period of time causing the misconfigured load balancer to behave poorly and eventually fail. This resulted in a cascading event as each load balancer crashed when traffic was diverted to the next available load balancer. Read more...
When a team begins a new project, it can take some time for their velocity to stabilize. Tracker’s “Commit Mode” enables scheduling more or fewer stories into the current iteration, sprint or cycle than Tracker would plan automatically. This manual control over the stories included in the current iteration was originally seen as a temporary planning need, so it has only been available on a per-iteration basis. Read more...
You know that reload message? Well it was worth clicking today as the Tracker beta UI has quite a few improvements, including removing the “Unsupported Browser” message for IE 10 and IE 11. There are still some minor issues, but we’ve completed a full pass of testing, and you can use these browsers for your projects. Read more...
You may be asking yourself, “Has something changed? Have you been working out? Did you cut your hair?”” The answer is Yes. Tracker has been redesigned for iOS 7. Read more...
To truly understand Tracker you need to appreciate how Labs does what is does. Onsi Fakhouri does a great job explaining just that. Here’s an excerpt from his blog post. Read more...
A serious security vulnerability was recently uncovered: CVE–2014–0160, AKA “Heartbleed.“ The Pivotal Tracker team has worked with our hosting provider and determined that none of our externally exposed servers were affected by this vulnerability. Read more...
Exciting news! All users now have access to the redesigned Pivotal Tracker, which includes an improved UI, multi-project workspace, cross-project search, in-app notifications and so much more. Read more about the Tracker Beta here. Read more...
The Tracker Team spent the last week working on individual projects to improve the product. This post is the first in a series about what we did, and how it went. Read more...
We’ve streamlined the way email notifications are sent from Tracker, reducing inbox noise and improving email readability. We’ve also given you more control over which notifications you see in-app and in email. Read more...
Email notifications allow you to stay connected with your project when away from Pivotal Tracker, and respond quickly when needed, for example to answer questions in story comments or accept delivered stories. Read more...
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